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From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com>
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John S. Dyson wrote:
> 
> > Using the standard biosboot, I am having problems selecting
> > the kernel (the bootstrap does not respond to keyboard activity
> > at all.)  I can boot /kernel, but that is it.  Before boot,
> > I can configure the bios, with no problems.  After boot, freebsd
> > works fine.
> >
> > Does anyone have any pointers or suggestions for solving this
> > problem?  I am dead until this thing is fixed (all I will
> > venture to do is to boot my existing kernel :-(.)
> >
> > MB:  SuperMicro P6DNF, AMI bios....
> >
> More info, isch() isn't ever sensing a character being typed.  I
> simply commented out the isch test (disabling the timeout), and
> it works (getchar is okay.)
> 
> Any known AMI bios bugs?  (I am NOT the person who knows all of
> these bios things.)
> 
> John
I observerd this on my P6NDF SuperMicro when booting from a floppy only.
I had to depress the space bar b4 the boot sequence hit the floppy to
be able to input from the key board. This was with the 10-14-96
boot.flp.
But since I didn't need to beeot from floppy, I never thought that much
of it, figured it was a fluke with my bios.
Ron
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